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These are the 72 BRILLIANT new emoji heading to your iPhone

Admit it, you love emoji like the rest of us. No text, WhatsApp or Facebook post is worth posting without at least a couple of the little pictograms thrown in.

Well, good news, your emoji addiction is about to get even easier to serve, because 72 new emoji are heading to your iPhone as part of the upcoming iOS 10.2 software update. It's currently unclear when iOS 10.2 will roll out to the masses, but with another beta realease having just dropped, there shouldn't be long to wait. What new emoji delights can you expect? Click on to find out.

By Luke Johnson
New emojis, face palm, Bowie, drooling face, Harambe, Silverback gorilla
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Apple iOS 10.2 emoji
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Fingers crossed there's some cool new emoji coming. Oh, wait...

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 When the bants ramp up there's an actual ROFL emoji.

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A number of new animals have been transformed into message-friendly forms, including the butterfly.

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How's it taken this long to get a bacon emoji?

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Prefer continental over full English? Well then welcome the new croissant emoji.

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All those new food emoji look so good you'll need this drool.

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I've not overeaten, honest, it's the pregnant lady emoji.

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Emoji have finally realised women are people too, with pilot emoji now coming in male and female forms.

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Farmers, too, have been brought into the 21st century.

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Apple's new iOS 10.2 emoji
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Hipsters, rejoice. The avocado has finally been immortalised in emoji form.

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An owl emoji, what a hoot, ahem.

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We can see this one being overused...

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Don't get the hype of the new emoji? Why not throw down this shrug option.

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Gorilla emoji... Harambe, is that you?

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Judge emojis are coming in both male and female forms.

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… and firefighters.

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Fox emoji
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A fox because, y'know... Foxes.

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Bowie emojis
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Rock star is a profession, just ask these Bowie-inspired additions.

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Apple iOS 10.2 emoji
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Great, now you can bore everyone with your running brags in emoji form too. Thanks, Apple.

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Prefer walking to running, you got it.

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